Let me add for other FReepers who might be tempted to then blame you for things I post here that you and I are not clones of one another and the fact that I post on whatever issue does not mean that you agree with me, even if I ping you. We are only in agreement 95+% of the time and a higher percentage of the really important stuff.
Please keep in your prayers two friends of mine: The first is a mother of many children and a superb wife and mother, a determined Christian lady who has, by great surprise and quite suddenly been diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. Pray for her recovery, or for her speedy and happy death and for the fine family that she may leave behind. The other is a very fine young man, himself an ambulance attendant/EMT, who was horribly injured and maimed in a head-on collision riding a motorcycle on Sunday morning. He has lost one leg at mid-calf, my lose a hand or even an arm or its use, has several areas of bleeding in his brain, and undetermined other injuries. His mother is an athletic coach who has been particularly kind to each of my three daughters. The entire family are exemplars of character. He was part of a crew of two EMT's who took me 25 miles by ambulance to an ER in early February with the utmost consideration when briefly I could not walk due to heart issues and pneumonia. When such tragedies strike two such fine people and their loved ones, it puts life and other matters into sharper perspective. Whatever God's plans may be, they just have to be better than our own. His will be done.
May God continue to bless you and yours!
It’s amazing the clarity that a glimpse of our own mortality brings.
Prayers up.